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The Mets defeated the Pirates by the score of 9-to-8 this afternoon.
For a full recap and box score, click here.
The Least You Should Know:
Tim Redding was ineffective this afternoon allowing five runs on six hits in just 2 1/3 innings. He threw a ton of breaking pitches and could not throw them consistently for strikes.
The Mets overcame Redding’s poor performance with two runs in the fourth inning, four runs in the fifth, and two runs in the sixth.
However, Francisco Rodriguez blew his third save of the season after allowing a two run home run to Adam LaRoche in the bottom of the ninth inning.
But Ryan Church saved the day with a game winning RBI single in the top of the tenth to score Fernando Tatis, who had a big day with three hits, scoring four runs including his third home run of the year – his first since May 13.
Omir Santos broke his 0 for 19 streak with a long double to center field in the 9th inning.
Everyone in the starting lineup had at least one hit.
Other Observations and Notes:
The game was delayed at the start for 30 minutes, and then again three batters into the game for 43 more minutes due to rain.
I felt like I was on a roller coaster at Six Flags today, but “resiliency” was a major theme this afternoon.
The team showed a lot of character today – I have to admit that I thought the Mets were going down that familiar path, falling way behind early and going through the motions, but they overcame their first five run deficit of the season today and also overcame a blown save by Rodriguez.
There were encouraging signs offensively today as there was good situational hitting up and down the lineup – something that the team has lacked for most of the year – including opposite field hits by Tatis and Church and a big sacrifice fly to left field by Jeremy Reed.
Francisco Rodriguez’s control has become a major problem, and it almost cost the Mets a huge victory.
A win is a win no matter who the Mets play and no matter how they get it, and this was a big one.
The Mets open a three game series against the Phillies in Philadelphia tomorrow night at 7:05 pm with Livan Hernandez facing Rodrigo Lopez.
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i am pleasantly surprised.
this weekend is huge.
Best moment of the game, when Keith says, “Someone should send that umpire to charm school.” Hilarious!
And someone should tell Redding to take that ridiculous brillo pad off his chin.
A thought on the stunningly quick ejection. Wasn’t Delwyn Young the player in the minors, a couple of years ago, that threw the bat that hit the umpire?
Perhaps the hair-trigger toss by the home-plate ump was some sort of long-simmering residual reaction to that event…
Biggest win of the year. Discuss.
I think you can only know big wins a few weeks later. If the Mets go in and play good baseball this weekend – then it would be the biggest win to date.
I’d thought that was against the Cards a week ago. Seems like there’s a “biggest win” every week.
Toasty:
Are you a teacher in your spare time?
I swear you write just like my old history professor.
The team certainly picked him up, but at least give K-Rod some credit for hanging in there and getting it done the second time around after throwing a ton of pitches.
Coming back out the next inning and getting them 1-2-3 shows he has balls.
Church 3 for 6, two RBIs, two runs? This sort of game by Church about a month ago would have Jerry benching him for tomorrow’s game.
Who closes tomorrow is a great question, I just hope it is a question that needs to be asked as we go into the 9th inning against the Phils tomorrow. I’d say let it be Green or Stokes, with me leaning towards Green given his performance the past few weeks.
how about just blow them and so a closer is a moot point?
12-2 sounds about right!
EEEEEEWWWWW! lol No thanks I’ll pass lol
a most unfortunate typo.
Or Feliciano, if the big lefties are due up…He’s done well against them, but that is a nerve-racking thought
Well look who had a big game? Tatis. Shouldn’t he be on the bench at all times?
generally. 1 game does not make a season, but I am sure now that he will play every day no matter what.
although after getting drilled twice, he may not be able to walk tomorrow!
If he produce like that I’m inclined to drill him in the hammy with the nearest pitching maching prior to each of his starts!
MY MAIN MAN TATIS!!! You guys gotta have a little faith! Told ya he would come up big once he got his timing back…. I want to see him in the lineup tomorrow…gotta go with the hot bat!
Great comeback win today for the Mets. But please let this be the last time Redding puts on a Mets uniform. I don’t want him starting or relieving, just get rid of this guy. There is a much better 5th starter in this organization and his name is Nelson Figueroa.
That may be true but I can give you 2 million reasons why they won’t release him!
Put him on waivers, @ 2 mil, someone else might just bite.
Well since we are almost half way thru the season he is only owed like $1,000,000 now but the Wilpons are too cheap even to cut him for that! Plus you can never have to much pitching….let him get lost in the bullpen as a long reliever or something… It’ll give us depth when we eventually need it.
Another grit/heart win. Oh wait, the new catch phrase for Met critics is leadership. Whatever.
This was a great team win from top to bottom. Overcame a joke start, hit, picked up Frankie, then he finally locked it down. Is it too early to quote the construction worker from Major League? “Maybe these guys ain’t so fu*kin’ bad.”
Concerns- Will the bullpen and DW be a little tired for Philly? Feliciano will still be ok, which is good. Just hope he doesn’t give up another ding dong.
Actually that better 5th starter is Jon Niese, who is working on 20 straight scoreless innings in aaa.
The Mets must have a couple of role players get hot until the troops get back. Today was a great sign for Tatis who finally went the other way, but also a big hit for murph and 2 for evans, who stayed hot. Verse righties we still should see murph at 1b and evans in left, but . Evans is an adventure at 1b and while murph is still learning he looks far more confident at the position.
As bad as gthe lineup looks, the mets had one of their worst pitching months in June in a very long time. It is, and always will be, about the pitching. Go get em livan.
Niese, Figueroa, my mom, anyone but Redding.
lmao!
I thought this game was over at 3-0 & 8-8 finally they’re able to come up with a come from behind.
Great win, how great would it be to sweep the phils…I know I know
Today’s game is exactly what the Mets needed going in to Philly: they could have crawled into a ball after 5 – 0 but they realized that there was a chance against a team like Pittsburgh. Then after the bullpen blew a lead, K-Rod showed why he is such an important part of the the team by taking the ball in the 10th and finishing the job. That’s what makes winners: overcoming long odds and putting the team on your back. It was nice to see Tatis have a good game and I hope that his performance as well as Church’s helps loosen up DWright, who clearly shows signs of pressing in the clutch. On to Philly and let’s go Braves tonight!
You think our game was crazy? Houston is delayed in the bottom of the ninth due to a swarm of bees taking over the field!
Mets ought to pick up Ryan Freel. He can play all over the field and hes a gamer. They could use more players who play his style of ball.
Him and Murphy went to the same high school, Murph can recruit him.
phils discussing pedro. GROSS. don’t do it petey. anywhere but there.
I bit off subject to the post, but does anyone else besides me find the whole international signing scouting market to be disgusting? Signing 16 year old kids to contracts. They’re taking advantage of lax child labor laws in the DR and other third world countries to pad their farms. And there being no draft sorta makes it a true meat market. I was just reading how the Mets signed Urbina who is 16 and felt somewhat disgusted by the whole idea.
No wonder Latin Americans are dominating the game, like in soccer these kids are playing professionally at 16 instead of going to school like they should be. And spare me the “Baseball Academy” crap like they are educating them for their best interest or something…
And now with that kid from the SI article getting his GED this mentality is spreading to the US. Is baseball really this important to us? Shouldn’t we be looking out for kids futures not exploiting them? And before someone points out how much money they make, for every one FMart you get ten that wash out and have to go into the world and earn a living or end up minor leaguers until they can’t walk then have to figure out how to live in their late 30s.
Yet another reason to hate Bud Selig; always silent when exploiting for the sake of the sport and making the owners money.
i dunno. it’s not like these kids would be going to degrassi junior high if they didn’t sign baseball contracts. they’d probably be working in a field somewhere at 16, and for the rest of their lives, if not for baseball. and it’s really not up to the mets or even MLB to fix systemic unequal distribution of wealth.
i think it’s very different than here in the states where kids have real academic opportunities.
I think dykstraw said it all.
Aside from the fact that dlbags comments are coming from a pretty elite standpoint.
dlbags:
it’s obvious you never left your hometown or even have a clue as to what it’s like down there. a career minor leaguer makes more in a month then most of those kids will see in their life times. And I am not stretching the truth. The average annual wage in the DR is less then $1500.00, yes, you pay more a month on rent then they will see in a year.
That is a huge losing argument right out of the box.
No game ball for Ryan Church/Tatis?
I agree it should be split in half between the 2
Phillies lose!!!!!! Yahoooooooooo! lol
yea it broke my heart to see the phillies lose lol…
Now lets take over first place this weekend!!!!!!!!!! Would help if we added a bat but…dont get me started lol..
Lets go Mets
Not sure if I missed it mentioned here, but did anyone catch on the Pittsburgh Scoreboard, Pittsburgh’s pet name for the Mets … the “Flushing Fizzle”.
I am so glad the Mets came back and stuck to Pittsburgh and made them eat their words!!!!!
I did miss it!, but then again they blew the 5-0 lead not us! So Pittsburgh can put that in their pipe and smoke it!
Although the Mets won, we should look at the bigger picture in the game. Mets’ pitching gave up 8 runs against a very mediocre offensive team. We can’t expect the Mets to score 9 runs every game with major contributions from Tatis.
Gotta be positive. 9 games left before the ASB. With everything that the Mets have endured the past 6 weeks, if we can be within a few games of first, it would be fantastic. There are going to be some games in there where we’ll look horrible with horrible pitching and an anemic offense but even going 4-5 will keep up close. Thankfully, the NL east is so mediocre. It’s nice to think how drastically different the team can look 10 games from now. The roster will be more balanced when Reyes and Beltran come back with bench guys going back to the bench and guys who need more time in the minors being sent down. If Ollie can even go back to last year’s form and Maine is healthy, there is no reason that we can’t win the division.